A 1920 law prevented anyone who owned land from selling it to Asians or leaving it to Asian heirs. To circumvent outright disenfranchisement, Asian-born entrepreneurs deeded new purchases to the Nisei, their American-born offspring, or Kibei, Japanese Americans who were educated in Japan....
(redirected fromAsian American culture) Thesaurus A·sian A·mer·i·can alsoA·sian-A·mer·i·can(ā′zhən-ə-mĕr′ĭ-kən) n. A US citizen or resident of Asian ancestry. See Usage Note atAmerasian. A′sian-A·mer′i·canadj. ...
Wendy Wong, spokesperson for the San Francisco Coalition for Good Neighborhoods, told Xinhua that they came here to have the voice of Asian American, particularly Chinese Americans, heard. "We cannot tolerate rising crime on the streets any longer. We have no sense of security and we want the...
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Specifically, Asian American abolition feminists are challenging mainstream narratives that isolate violence to conversations of racism alone and calling for the abolition of the carceral system that is historically and inherently responsible for violence against Black, Indigenous, people ...
A mass shooting at Atlanta-area spas on March 16 resulted in eight deaths, the majority of the victims Asian American women. The AP reported that South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent. Law enforcement has not yet concluded if ...
Expanding funding for the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program and reauthorizing theNative American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Actwith the full inclusion of Native Hawaiians. Strengthening fair housing law and enforcement. Giving HUD the tools to take on modern-day redlining and ...
RELATED:‘The Asian-American community is feeling enormous pain’: Biden shares outrage over Atlanta shootings Law enforcement needs "some training understanding what a hate crime is. This man identified targets owned by Asians," said Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Ce...
language domination” and destruction of the “historical American way of life.” These sentiments were eerily similar to those expressed by the senators who had backed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Over a decade ago, law professor Jack Chin documented ...
Research highlights racial and ethnic disparities in suicide, but Asian American suicide receives very little attention in the literature. This is the firs